TClock: Show Windows 7 Look-like Date & Time in System Tray in Windows XP and Vista

As we all know "Windows 7" comes with new Superbar (redesigned Taskbar) which shows Date along with Time in system tray.

We earlier mentioned that you can even customize the date and time format and can show AM/PM symbols, Day and Month names:

How to Show AM / PM Symbols in System Tray Clock in Windows 7

How to Show Day and Month Names in System Tray Date in Windows 7

But it was only applicable in Windows 7, then what about Windows XP and Vista users?

No need to worry. Thanks to "nemesiscult" for mentioning "TClock".

"TClock" is a very small and portable utility which can be customized to show the Windows 7 look-a-like Date and Time in Windows XP and Vista.

Actually its an application to customize system tray clock format. You can show whatever you want. You can customize AM/PM symbols, date and time format.

Following are some screenshots taken from Windows XP, Vista and 7 showing TClock in action:

Windows XP:

Windows Vista:

Windows 7:

As you can see, we can show both Date and Time (even Day and Month names) using TClock.

You can download TClock using following link:

Download TClock

After downloading, extract the ZIP file and run "TClock.exe" file. You can customize its properties by right-click on system tray clock and select "TClock Properties".

As you can see in above screenshot, you can even access "Task Manager" and "Taskbar Properties" from its context menu.

Once you enter TClock Properties, you can change various options like:

Changing clock font and color
Its size and position
Date and Time format
You can even set alarms

To show date and time, just use the string shown in the above screenshot. You can get more information about the format from following topic:

How to Show Day and Month Names in System Tray Date in Windows 7

"TClock" also allows Windows XP users to hide Start button, rename Start button, opening startmenu from system tray.

You can also set Transparency for Startmenu and Taskbar and it works even in Windows 7.

So its a small but highly customizable application for Windows users.

Download TClock

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23 Comments

vajlent

Well, when i use the customized format like the string above the clock
stops to synchronize???
tbvnz

Works great on my Vista 32 bit. Changed font to Segoe UI, size 12(centered better), font color white.
tbvnz

Vishal, gotta thank you. You help me keep my laptop looking uber-customized. My IT guys always cast envious glances at my machine(Mac people as well). Thanks again. P.S. you should have some of your fans post screenshots one day so we can all see the fruits of your labor.
Michael

I found out how to get this software working in Vista. You must run it as administrator and I found it doesn't work if you put the files in Program Files folder.

I ran one time as administrator and put the files in C: and it runs fine.
unch

excellent... takes abit of adjusting... but i love it... cheers
unch

what i mean by adjusting is .... when u first set it up .. it takes abit of trial and error to get it looking right.. but once your settings are in its fantastic.... thanks guys
Apurv

Thanks yet again Vishal, but one thing i wanna ask is how you compresss files so much with zip, your tclock zip file is of 373 KB and after extracting it becomes of 1.1MB, how are you able to do that, can u pls tell us? That wud be great!
VG

^^ That file was not compressed by me but you can use 7-Zip to compress files.
Akram

this is giving month no instead of minutes
correct format is:
hh:nn:ss tt \n ddd,dd mmm yyyy
LA

thanks Akram, I think that's why the minute stuck on 5.